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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
rfare. February 25. The President was not, however, at any time personally opposed to the admission of the colored people to the elective franchise, and privately and publicly expressed his hope and desire that the very intelligent, and those who had served as soldiers, should be admitted to it; but he was firmly of opinion that the decision, as to whether they should have the right or not, must be left with the class of voters qualified before the war. Letter to Governor Hahn, March 13, 1864. The struggle began Thursday, February 23, when Trumbull moved to take up the resolution concerning Louisiana, and Sumner urged instead the consideration of the interstate commerce bill, which, as he said, was a practical measure, unlike the Louisiana resolution, which would prove merely a dance of debate. Trumbull reminded the Senate that if a single negro is expelled from the cars in the District of Columbia the voice of the senator from Massachusetts is heard in this hall. He wi